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WHERE IS GOD 
IN THE EUROPEAN WAR? 



Where is God 

in the 

European War 



BY 

Hon. ROBERT L. OWEN 

UNITED STATES SENATOR OF OKLAHOMA 

CHAIBMAN OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE CJOMMTTTEE 

ON BANKINO AND CUEEENCY 



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WHERE IS GOD 
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WHERE IS GOD IN 
THE EUROPEAN WAR? 

ON the floor of the United 
States Senate recently a dis- 
tinguished Senator described the 
frightful tragedies of the European 
battle-fields, the terrorism pervading 
Europe, the slaughter of women and 
children, the wholesale destruction of 
life, and in a burst of despair the 
Senator cried out: 

"Where is God?" 

From many quarters has come this 
despairing cry: 

"WTiere is God? Why does He 
permit His children to slaughter one 
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another with flame and sword; with 
poisonous gas ; with bomb and shrap- 
nel?" 

God needs no exculpation at the 
hands of mortal man. 

Men, however, do need to under- 
stand the majesty of the laws of 
God and that men cannot violate 
them in the slightest degree. Men 
only exemplify the operation of these 
laws. 

The laws of God are spiritual as 
well as material, and govern the 
spiritual, moral, ethical world with 
the same absolute precision as in 
the material world. 

These moral laws can no more be 
disregarded with impunity than the 
law of gravity which holds the earth 
in its path around the sun. The 
spiritual and moral law is perfectly 
consistent with liberty. Man is not 

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an automaton; he is a spirit with 
powers divine, endowed with the 
knowledge of right and wrong. 

If saint or sinner step from a 
precipice, he does not violate, he 
exemplifies the law of gravity, and 
if he murder he exemplifies the moral 
law in the evil results which follow. 

Under the moral law of God, evil 
consequences always ensue if man 
violate that which he knows to be 
right. He need not be learned; he 
need not be able to read or write, 
to know what is right and what is 
wrong. 

The laws of man are based on the 
law^s of God, and the commandments 
of men not to lie, or steal, or covet, 
or kill are based upon the everlast- 
ing fact that evil consequences en- 
sue with certainty when any of these 
things are done. The laws of God 



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give liberty of choice, and good or 
bad results inevitably follow accord- 
ing as the choice be good or bad. 
William II and his war lords have 
been violating the Ten Command- 
ments of Moses and exemplifying 
the millions of evil consequences 
which under the moral laws of God 
flow therefrom. 

THE LAWS OF MOSES VIOLATED. THE 
LAWS OF GOD EXEMPLIFIED 

1. ''Thou shalt have no other gods 
before me." 

This law has been violated by 
William II, who worships IMaterial 
Force, "the good old German Gott," 
Thor, the god of battles, with his 
mighty hammer; but the violation 
of this Commandment brings evil 
consequences and exemplifies the di- 
vine law. 

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2. Moses forbade men to commit 
iniquity, and promised punishment 
upon those guilty of "iniquity," and 
upon their "children unto the third 
and fourth generation." 

WilKam II and his captains have 
taught their soldiers and people 
"iniquity," the violation of plighted 
faith, the breaking of treaties as 
"scraps of paper," the disregard of 
the civilized Hague conventions and 
of their solemn covenants with other 
nations; have taught organized war 
and murder for profit, the slaughter 
of innocents as "terrorism" — "in- 
iquity" on "iniquity." 

The evil consequences are certain 
for violations of this Commandment, 
and are now falling on William II, 
his soldiers, and his people in terrible 
exemplification of God's moral laws. 

3. "Thou shalt not take the name 

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of the Lord thy God in vain; for 
the Lord will not hold him guiltless 
that taketh his name in vain." 

William II has more blasphemous- 
ly taken the name of the Lord in 
vain than any ruler in the world; he 
pretends to speak for God as His 
agent or representative on earth, 
and has declared God a partner of 
his own wickedness. He and his 
associates are reaping the results. 

4. The Commandment to rest one 
day in seven is necessary to the 
welfare of man, and this Command- 
ment can be violated, but evil follows. 

5. "Honor thy father and thy 
mother; that thy days may be long 
upon the land which the Lord thy 
God giveth thee." 

This Commandment is vital to 
human welfare. It can be violated, 
but it is a Commandment based upon 

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the law of God which visits a penalty 
upon those who do not honor the 
father and the mother. 

6. The Mosaic law declares. Thou 
shalt not kill. This law may be 
violated, but terrible consequences 
assuredly follow, 

William II and his trained cap- 
tains have taught organized killing 
by armed men and have trained 
men for this purpose — not for de- 
fense, but for offense. They have 
taught murder for profit, for an- 
nexation, for indemnity, for pillage, 
for robbery, and have committed all 
of these and other crimes as a se- 
quence of the leadership of William 
II. The evil consequences for the 
wholesale violation of this law are 
flowing in a flood to humiliate and 
distress the German people with 
merited punishment. All the world 

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is in arms against them for these 
crimes. God's moral law brings cer- 
tain punishment on the criminal. 

7. The Mosaic law says. Thou 
shalt not commit adultery. This law 
may be violated, but under the laws 
of God evil consequences follow, spir- 
itual degradation, moral perversion, 
loss of dignity, disgrace. 

8. The Mosaic law declares, Thou 
shalt not steal. This wise human 
statute is often violated by foolish 
men who think to improve their 
property rights by stealing, and 
under the law of God evil conse- 
quences ensue with certainty, wheth- 
er the man be detected by men or 
not, and neither men nor nations 
can disregard this law without pay- 
ing the penalties. Under German 
leadership the German forces have 
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northern France. Its ally, the Aus- 
trians, have stolen everything avail- 
able in Serbia, the Turks have killed 
and robbed and stolen the property 
of the Armenians, but no man will 
deny that under the majestic laws 
of God the evil consequences of 
these acts will be in due time visited 
upon the criminals. 

The world is marching upon the 
criminals, who are beginning to plead 
for peace, and no man dare trust 
them. There can be no peace until 
reparation is fully provided for. 

9. The law of Moses says. Thou 
shalt not bear false witness, and 
this Commandment may be vio- 
lated by man. Evil results always 
follow the sin and exemplify the 
moral laws of God. 

On the most gigantic scale in the 
history of the world German leader- 

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ship has committed this crime in a 
world-wide propaganda to embroil 
all nations, internally and externally, 
by skilful falsehoods. The evidences 
of this criminal conduct have been 
gathered from the ends of the earth, 
from the South and Central Amer- 
ican Republics; from Mexico, the 
United States; from Japan, China, 
and India ; from Siberia ; from Egypt, 
South Africa, North Africa; from 
Ireland; and above all through the 
European states, where these fiends 
incarnate have by false witness been 
building the fires with which to 
consume mankind. 

William II and his captains have 
violated the ninth Commandment 
most abundantly, but they are merely 
exemplifying the laws of God, which 
will inflict certain punishment for 
these crimes against the truth of God. 

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All the world is marching on Ber- 
lin to punish this arch fiend and 
his captains, whom President Wilson^ 
with the approval of the whole world, 
has described as "without honor" 
and "incapable of covenanted peace." 

10. The law of Moses commands 
that men shall not covet the prop- 
erty of others. 

The Hohenzollerns and the Haps- 
burgs illustrate the perverted in- 
breeding of human beings by families 
to intensify the evil trait of covetous- 
ness to the highest degree. They 
marry and they are given in mar- 
riage in covetousness, without love, 
merely to enlarge their own powers 
and their own acquisitions. Every 
step of William II since his birth 
and conscious life has been guided 
by covetousness, coveting power 

and coveting property; he dreamed 

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dreams of covetousness ; he coveted 
the world; he desired to exceed Alex- 
ander the Great, who wept because 
there were no more worlds to con- 
quer. He laid his plans from the day 
he assumed power until August, 1914, 
to seize the property and the territory 
of neighboring people and force them 
by the sword to pay tribute to him. 
He violated the Mosaic law, but he 
illustrates the law of God, under 
which evil consequences flow from 
covetousness. All the world is march- 
ing on Berlin, to inflict upon William 
II and his captains and his follow- 
ers the just penalties for the viola- 
tion of the human commandments 
which they have broken. 

They have violated all the laws 
of nations; they have treated their 
solemn pledges with other nations 
in treaties as ''scraps of paper" 

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until no man could believe any prom- 
ise or any oath emanating from them. 

They are incapable of covenanted 
peace and can be dealt with only 
upon the basis of "unconditional 
surrender" and a dictated peace. 

They have taught the doctrine 
that *' might makes right"; that 
right does not make might; that 
God does not speak to men through 
the conscience and does not tell 
men what is right and what is wrong 
and does not punish the powerful 
or rich for wrong-doing; they have 
led the German people astray; they 
have violated all the commandments 
of men, but they are merely exem- 
plifying the laws of God which visit 
evil consequences on those who dis- 
regard the moral law. 

The laws of God are inconceivably 
majestic. They cannot be violated 

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in the most minute particular by 
mice or men or planets. This war 
with its afflictions and sorrows will 
prove an infinite blessing to man- 
kind, by teaching men that they 
cannot violate the laws of God, but 
that the whole human family is 
bound together and must pay the 
penalty for human wrong-doing; that 
RIGHT must be practised, taught, and 
enforced throughout the earth. Right 
involves justice, humanity, liberty, 
mercy, and it is best secured by 
Popular Government under the 
mechanism by which the Sover- 
eignty of the Majority may be ex- 
ercised. 

If man were an automaton and 
had no liberty of choice, he could 
not rise to the level of a high per- 
sonal spiritual life in which all nor- 
mal men believe. The law of God 

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gives liberty to men, the divine 
right to choose between good and 
evil, but neither saint nor sinner 
can disregard the laws of God with 
impunity, whether material or moral. 
He can neither put his hand in the 
fire nor lie without immediate evil 
consequences. Thus is man taught 
not to lie and not to put his hand 
in the fire. The laws of God are the 
laws of cause and eflfect rightly in- 
terpreted. 

The European war has been 
brought about through the natural 
processes of cause and effect, 

THROUGH THE DEFECTS OF THE 

STRUCTURE OF GOVERNMENT in Prus- 
sia, Germany, Austria, and the frailty 
of THE FEW in administering the re- 
sponsibilities of government uncon- 
trolled by the wisdom and justice of 
THE PEOPLE. The war was unavoid- 

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able when the power to prepare for 
war and to declare war became vested 
in the hands of a Kaiser who had 
the vanity, the ambition, and the 
folly to believe he could successfully 
conquer the world, and the insolence 
and wickedness to attempt it, and a 
subservient people to follow and sup- 
port his foolish ambition. 

If the German People had been 
sovereign, instead of the vainglorious 
Kaiser, there would have been no 
war. The German Constitution per- 
mitted the Kaiser to declare war 
FOR DEFENSE, and he made a war for 
OFFENSE under the false pretense of 
DEFENSE, and no man was strong 
enough to prevent his unspeakably 
wicked action. 

If sovereignty had been vested in 
the People it could not have hap- 
pened. 

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THE DIRECT CAUSE OF THE EUROPEAN 
WAR 

Autocracy vs. Democracy 

Before the printing-press had be- 
come of great force, before the pub- 
He school and the general education 
of the people had become powerful, 
there had developed in Europe an 
"imperial Government" claiming to 
govern its subjects, the people, *'by 
divine right." These Governments 
were headed by the Hohenzollerns, 
the Hapsburgs, the Romanoffs, 
the Bourbons (Autocracies), who 
swore in the Secret Treaty of Verona 
a covenant of hostility to all repre- 
sentative governments (Democra- 
cies) and against the education of 
the people and the freedom of the 
press. 

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These Autocratic Governments 
were of necessity selfish, corrupt, 
arrogant. 

To the throne became attached 
every selfish interest, every duke, 
count, baron, and junker who could 
profit himself; every commercial and 
financial interest that could profit 
commercially and financially by sup- 
porting the throne. 

This system enabled the few to 
profit out of the proceeds of the 
labor of the great masses of the 
people, governed as '* subjects," and 
led the autocrats to prey on the 
"subject" people and to conspire 
to keep them in ignorance, poverty, 
and weakness. 

As the printing-press developed 
and the great mass of the people in- 
creased in knowledge, they discov- 
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part of the proceeds of their labor 
was taken over by their rulers, who 
lived in great luxury and power, 
while the "subject" people re- 
mained abjectly poor and subjected 
to ignorance, to physical exposure, 
and to moral and ethical decadence. 

The people, emerging from igno- 
rance, finally revolted in France in 
the French Revolution against ab- 
solute monarchy, and tried to estab- 
lish popular government by the over- 
throw of the monarchy. They were 
not yet fully prepared by education 
for self-government, and went to 
great excesses. Napoleon Bonaparte 
succeeded in seizing the military 
powers of the French people and, 
seduced by the covetousness of 
wealth and power, undertook to 
make himself lord over all Europe. 

It resulted, of course, in Waterloo 

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(1815), but it also resulted in a 
solemn warning to kings in Europe 
that they must not disregard too 
far the rights of the people. 

THE HOLY ALLIANCE (of Autocracies) 

In 1815 Alexander I of Russia, 
head of the Romanoffs, Francis Jo- 
seph of Austria, head of the Haps- 
burgs, Frederick William of Prussia, 
head of the Hohenzollerns, admon- 
ished by Napoleon's end, entered 
into an astonishing treaty called the 
treaty of the "Holy Alliance" at the 
instance of Alexander I of Russia 
(September 26, 1815). This hypo- 
critical treaty was nothing more nor 
less than a self-serving declaration 
of Christian virtue by the three sig- 
natory monarchs. 

They declared themselves in favor 

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of the Christian rehgion; that they 
were the servants of God; that they 
held their powers for the benefit of 
the people; that they were honor 
bound to observe the interests of 
the people as the chief object of 
their reign; that they should be 
regarded as fathers of three great 
families whose interests required 
them to be at peace with each other 
and to live in accordance with the 
humane doctrines of Christ. 

Nothing could have been finer 
than such a conception of the rela- 
tion of RULERS to the "subject" 
people, and if they had really lived 
up to the high measure of these 
principles Europe might have had 
continued peace, happiness, and pros- 
perity in all human probability. The 
fatal defect was that it was not 
at heart sincere; it was merely a 

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piece of camouflage to appease the 
people and prevent the repetition 
of the dreaded French Revolution. 
Each of these monarchies retained in 
its own hands the absolute control 
of the army and navy, the law-mak- 
ing and law-executing power, the 
right of taxing the people and ex- 
pending the taxes as it saw fit. Any 
individual citizen asserting the right 
to express his own opinion or to 
enjoy liberty, or demanding that the 
people should enjoy a larger part of 
the proceeds of the labor of the peo- 
ple, was subject to arrest, to prison, 
to coiu^t martial, to exile in Siberia, 
to sudden death. 

THE SECRET TREATY OF VERONA 

The insincerity of the treaty of 
the **Holy AlHance" was completely 

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demonstrated by the secret treaty 
of Verona of 1822, drawn by Prince 
Metternich of Austria as an amend- 
ment to that treaty; the first two 
articles of which are as follows: 

"Article I. — The high contracting pow- 
ers being convinced that the system of 
REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT [Democracy] 
is equally as incompatible with the mon- 
archical PRINCIPLES [Autocracy] as the 
maxim of the sovereignty of the people 
[Democracy] with the divine right [Autoc- 
racy], engage mutually, in the most solemn 
manner, to use all their efforts to put an 
END to [Democracy] the system of repre- 
sentative governments, in whatever 
country it ]may exist in Europe, and to 
prevent its [Democracy] being intro- 
duced in those countries where it is 
not yet known. 

"Article II. — ^As it cannot be doubted 
that THE liberty of the press is the 
most powerful means used by the pre- 
tended supporters of the rights of na- 

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TioNS [Democracy] to the detriment op 
THOSE PRINCES [Autocracy], the high con- 
tracting parties promise reciprocally to 
adopt all proper measm-es to suppress it, 
[The Liberty of the Press] not only in 

THEIR OWN STATES, BUT ALSO IN THE REST 

OF Europe." (See Congressional Record, 
April 2G, 191G, page 6781.) 

It will here be observed that these 
absolute monarchies who in the 
treaty of the "Holy AUiance" had 
pledged themselves 

"To take for their sole guide the precepts 
of their holy religion the Saviour taught, 
namely: the precepts of justice. Christian 
charity, peace, " 

and who had pledged themselves 
in this treaty of the "Holy AlH- 
anee" 

"By unalterable good-will and mutual af- 
fection with which they ought to be ani- 

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mated, to consider themselves all as mem- 
bers of one and the same Christian nation; 
the three allied princes looking on them- 
selves as merely delegated by providence 
TO GOVERN three branches of the one fam- 
ily, namely Austria, Prussia, and Russia. 
Thus confessing that the Christian world, 
of which they and their people formed a 
part, has in reality no other Sovereign than 
Him to whom alone power really belongs, 
because in Him alone are found all of the 
treasures of love, science, and infinite wis- 
dom, — that is to say, God, Our Divine 
Saviour, The Word of the Most High, The 
Word of Life"— 

are now discovered deliberately and 
SOLEMNLY engaging to refuse to 

THEIR OWN PEOPLE ANY RIGHT OF 

REPRESENTATION in a Government 
supported by the taxes and by the 
labors and sacrifices of the people 
themselves. 

Not only did they pledge them- 

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selves that the people should not 
have any right to a voice in their 
own government, but that they 
should be continued to be held as 
subjects (in fact, as political slaves) ; 
but they went much further — they 
pledged themselves not to permit 
them any liberty of expressing their 
opinions through the printing-press, 
and pledged themselves to suppress 
the liberty of the press so as to keep 
the people in ignorance of their 
rights, and to enable them by means 
of a controlled press to instruct the 
people falsely against their own in- 
terests. 

They solemnly covenanted in the 
SECRET treaty of Verona, which they 
wisely kept secret, that they would 
hold the people in governmental 
slavery in flat violation of the pre- 
cepts of the holy religion the Saviour 

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taught, namely: "The precepts of 
justice, Christian charity, peace,'* 
which they had solemnly pledged 
themselves to uphold in the treaty 
of the "Holy Alliance" "to take for 
their sole guide." 

They proved themselves by the 
secret treaty of Verona to be organ- 
ized liars, robbers, murderers. They 
lied to all of the world over their 
own signatures in pretending to be 
guided by the principles of Christ, in 
pretending to be guided by charity 
and peace and brotherly love. While 
these seK-serving princes falsely pre- 
tended to be the representatives of 
Christ on earth, they were permitting 
their own subjects to be robbed, to 
be kept in ignorance, and in the 
secret treaty of Verona pledged them- 
selves not to permit the people, who 
were becoming increasingly intelli- 

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gent, to have any part or voice in 
their own self-government. They 
did not permit them the right of 
petition, or any of the great rights 
of hfe, of hberty, of the pursuit of 
happiness, or the means by which 
these rights are safeguarded through 
adequate, orderly process of law. 
They closed the door to the people 
of discussing their affairs in public 
through a free press, because they 
knew that the truth was mighty 
and would prevail, and they 

WERE ENGAGED IN A CONSPIRACY 
TO PREVENT THE TRUTH BEING 
HEARD, and TO DESTROY ALL DE- 
MOCRACIES. 

Christ taught, 

"If ye continue in my word, then are ye 
my disciples indeed; and ye shall know 

THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE 
YOU FREE." 

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But these self-serving monarchies 
did not intend to permit the people 
to be free or the truth to be known; 
they intended falsehoods to be taught 
to the people, that the people should 
not be free, and fully carried out 
this intent from 1822 to 1918. In 
the secret treaty of Verona they 
pledged themselves to furnish 20,- 
000,000 francs per annum to enable 
Louis XVIII, the head of the Bour- 
bons, to make war on the Spanish 

people IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH IN 

Spain an absolute monarchy, in 
lieu of a limited monarchy ob- 
tained by the people of Spain by 
revolution as a means of protecting 
themselves against the unjust ex- 
actions of an absolute monarchy. 
They waged war on and killed 
the unoffending Spanish people, 
with fire and sword, and compelled 

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them to yield to the absolute dic- 
tation of the Spanish King, the same 
king who had been governing under 
a Constitution forced upon the crown 
by the people. 

This same so-called '*Holy Al- 
liance" immediately sent an army of 
Austrians into Italy and murdered 

and SLAUGHTERED THE ITALIAN 

PEOPLE for their own pretended 
"holy and Christian purposes," and 
compelled the unhappy people of 
Italy to give up the limited monarchy 
which they had by revolution forced 
upon the King of Italy, and they es- 
tablished an absolute monarchy in 
Italy by military violence, with the 
same king on the throne, in order 

TO ESTABLISH MORE STRONGLY AU- 
TOCRACY IN Europe, AND to weaken 

THE GROWING TENDENCY TOWARD 

DEMOCRACY. 

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These detestable men, the heads 
of the families of the RomanofiFs, 
Hohenzollerns, Hapsburgs, and Bour- 
bons, then proposed to send their 
trained armies and navies to the 
Western Hemisphere for the purpose, 
as they said, of "reducing the colo- 
nies of Spain and Portugal on the 
Western Hemisphere," and thus 
strangling all representative govern- 
ments (Democracies) at their birth in 
the two Americas. They proposed, by 
necessary implication, the murder of 

THE PEOPLE IN BrAZIL and IN THE 

Argentine and in Chile and in 
Mexico, for example, not for the 
"holy Christian purpose" of pro- 
moting the doctrines of Christ, but 
for the unholy purpose of promoting 
their own selfish powers, the powers 
of autocracy. 

The blasphemous hypocrisy of the 

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treaty of the "Holy Alliance" has 
never been surpassed on earth. 

THE MONROE DOCTRINE 

While they were contemplating 
this attack on America, the Prime 
Minister of Great Britain, Lord Can- 
ning, notified the detestable Hohen- 
zollern-Hapsburg conspiracy of the 
*'Holy Alliance" that Great Britain 
would oppose such an assault on the 
former colonies of Spain and Portu- 
gal. 

It should be remembered that 
Great Britain, though a limited mon- 
archy, was already, in 1822, a gov- 
ernment fairly representative of the 
British people, loving liberty and 
justice, and that Great Britain had 
learned in the wars of 1776 and 1812 
to abandon the doctrine of the Ger- 

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man-bred George III of Hanover, 
that ''Might Makes Right," and that 
Great Britain had at that time 
changed her pohcy toward her own 
colonies, having learned in Amer- 
ica that "right makes might." 

President Monroe, advised by 
Great Britain of the conspiracy of the 
houses of Hohenzollern and Haps- 
burg to invade the Hberties of North 
and South America, sent his message 
to Congress in December, 1823, in 
which he announced the Monroe 
Doctrine in the following words: 

"It is impossible that the allied powers 
should extend their political system 
TO any portion of either continent 
without endangering our peace and 
happiness; nor can any one believe that 
our southern brethren, if left to themselves, 
would adopt it of their own accord. It is 
equally impossible, therefore, that we should 

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behold such interposition in any form with 
indifference." 

"With the existing colonies or depend- 
encies of any European power we have not 
interfered and shall not interfere. But 
with the Governments who have declared 
their independence and maintained it, and 
whose independence we have, on great con- 
sideration and just principles, acknowl- 
edged, we could not view any interposition 
for the purpose of oppressing them or con- 
trolling in any other manner their destiny 
by any European power in any other light 
than as the manifestation of an unfriendly 
disposition toward the United States." 

This action of Great Britain and 
the United States checked the so- 
called "Holy Alliance" and pre- 
vented the covetous ambition of the 
Hohenzollerns and Hapsburgs and 
their un-"holy" associates from de- 
stroying the democracies of the 
Western Hemisphere. 

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The Governments of the ''Holy 
Alliance," pretending to represent 
Christ on earth, absolutely ignored 
the fundamentals of the doctrine of 
Christ — to love God and to love 
their neighbor as themselves, to obey 
the Commandments, not to lie, steal, 
murder, covet. They violated all 
of these laws. They permitted them 
to be violated. Their courts became 
corrupt with wickedness and intrigue 
from the unavoidable evil conse- 
quences which flow from the viola- 
tion of the laws of morality and 
righteousness. 

The Romanoffs have come to their 
inerited reward. 

The Bourbons came to their de- 
served end. 

The Hohenzollems and the Haps- 
burgs cannot last another year. It 
is the law of cause and effect, and 

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the necessary consequence which 

must ensue under the immutable laws 

of God. 

President Monroe declared: 

"It is impossible that the AlHed 

Powers [Prussia and Austria] should 

EXTEND THEIR POLITICAL SYSTEM 

[of Autocracy] to any portion of 
either Continent [of America] with- 
out endangering our peace and hap- 
piness" (as Democracies). 

The Autocratic "system" has en- 
dangered the peace and happiness of 
all Europe and visited a frightful 
penalty on the whole world. 

The Hohenzollerns and Hapsburgs 
were permitted by the enfeebled 
German and Austrian people to 
maintain the doctrine of "divine 
right" in Prussia and Austria. 

The Hohenzollerns and Hapsburgs 
never did recognize the Monroe 

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Doctrine. They secretly denounced 
it. They were back of the attempt 
to estabhsh a monarchy under Maxi- 
mihan in Mexico in 1866, which the 
United States defeated. 

William II attempted to establish 
a footing in Venezuela, which the 
United States prevented. 

It was a Hohenzollern Admiral 
(1898) who attempted to block Ad- 
miral Dewey in Manila Bay, which 
was prevented by Dewey with the 
co-operation of a British admiral. 

William II followed the wicked de- 
signs of the "Holy Alliance" and 
of the secret treaty of Verona. He 
controlled the kindergartens, the 
gymnasiums, the high schools, the 
universities, the pulpits, the press, 
the magazines, the instruction of the 
people. He taught them the false 
doctrine that "Might Makes Right." 

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The false doctrine that every energy 
should be put into the development 
of a highly organized army kept 
in perfect fighting condition at all 
times; that war could and should 
be made profitable; that war was 
beneficial to nations ; that wars could 
be made with such vigor as to be 
short as well as profitable; that the 
German people were entitled to es- 
tablish dominion over all of the 
earth. He had the German people 
taught to sing "'Hymns of Hate'* 
and *'Deutschland iiber AUes"; he 
had the young men taught to fight 
duels; he had his young officers of 
the navy and the army drink to the 
mysterious ''Der Tag," "The Day," 
when Germany would draw its con- 
quering sword and master the earth. 
He had his military men steep 
themselves in the literature of the 

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bloodiest practises of war, to harden 
their hearts, and to believe that to 
make war fearful was to make war 
short and victorious. He had the 
German people taught that terror- 
ism was justified. In order to have 
his soldiers disregard the prompt- 
ings of conscience, he had them 
taught that unless they made war 
terrible they would themselves be 
the victims of crucifixion and mur- 
der by their enemies. He had the 
commercial and financial captains 
taught that the treasures of all of 
the world would lie at their feet 
when the German victorious armies 
seized Paris in three weeks; then 
captured Russia; then controlled 
Europe; then mastered Great Bri- 
tain and "levied tribute upon Amer- 



ica. 



He was convinced that "Might 

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Made Right." He argued from 
cause and effect in the material 
world and did not see the cause 
and effect of the moral and spiritual 
world that controls men. "Right 
Makes Might" in the moral world, 
and material might opposing itself 
to spiritual right is ultimately hum^ 
bled to the dust. 

William II, pretending to respect 
the ethical and moral law, had the 
German people taught the doctrine 
of the survival of the fittest, the sur- 
vival of the strongest, without hav- 
ing the wisdom to know that They 
Are Fittest and Strongest Who Love 
the Moral and Ethical Law, the law 
of justice and humanity, and follow 
it with courage. 

By violating these laws and threat- 
ening the peace of mankind he has 
marshaled against the German people 

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twenty -two nations, including all of 
the great nations of the earth, and 
brought upon himself the destruc- 
tion of his own dynasty, the physical 
destruction of milUons of the German 
people, the moral degradation of 
Germany. He has ignored the im- 
mutable moral laws and is illus- 
trating the evil consequences which 
flow from violating the Ten Com- 
mandments. 

William II formed the policy of 
storing up gigantic supplies of muni- 
tions of war. 

He built up the railroads of Ger- 
many to serve war purposes. He 
built up gigantic factories for the 
making of steel and powder and war 
munitions. He diligently and vigor- 
ously prepared for war, while he 
continually announced through the 
press that he was the great protector 

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of the peace of Europe. While he 
continually represented himself as in 
favor of peace, he was secretly pre- 
paring for war, in imitation of Fred- 
erick II, who practised the same 
policy before he seized Silesia. When 
William II was finally completely 
ready for war, he called together 
the military, industrial, and financial 
captains of war at a meeting at Pots- 
dam on July 5, 1914, to ascertain if 
they were all ready. 

His war lords were ready. His 
financial lords requested two weeks 
in which to sell their foreign se- 
curities; and suddenly the New York 
Stock Exchange reflected the sale of 
hundreds of millions of German-held 
stocks and bonds. The evidence of 
the guilty Potsdam conference is now 
thoroughly well estabhshed. 

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been in preparation by William II 
for many years. 

The evidence is now overwhelm- 
ingly complete that William II had 
been deliberately planning this war 
for the purpose of making his name 
more illustrious than any Emperor 
in the history of the world. 

The crime of William II will go 
down as the most dastardly in the 
history of mankind, as having pro- 
voked the slaughter of a larger num- 
ber of human beings than any war 
in history. 

The invasion of Serbia is now 
known to have been a mere pre- 
tense and a means of starting the 
war in such a way that France and 
Russia could be struck by the Ger- 
man armies unawares and at the 
same time still make it possible to 
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the German armies were directed 
by William II as a means of protect- 
ing Germany from the assault of her 
enemies. 

William II ostentatiously declared 
at the beginning of the war that 
the sword was forced into his hands 
— a wilful falsehood, deliberately in- 
vented as a means of protecting him- 
self against the condemnation of the 
moral elements of Germany and of 
the neutral nations of the world. 

It was not known at the beginning 
of the war what is known now — 
that William II had been spending 
hundreds of millions of dollars 
(earned by the industry and labor 
of the German people) for the pur- 
pose of embroiling the nations of 
the whole world and of preventing 
them from interfering with William 
II in pursuit of his ambition to 

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dominate Europe and to dominate 
the world. Convincing evidence has 
now been secured showing his con- 
spiracy to stir up revolt in Ireland, 
in India, in Egypt, in South Africa; 
to stir up Mexico, the United States, 
Japan, China, and everywhere sow 
sedition, treason, revolution, and 
war. 

It is now known that he was carry- 
ing on a world-wide propaganda to 
teach war and preparedness to the 
German and Austrian people, while 
other nations were taught unpre- 
paredness and pacifism. 

The Divine Ruler of the Universe 
is not responsible for the European 
war. The insane ambition of a man 
of commonest clay named William 
Hohenzollern, and the folly of the 
German and Austrian people in per- 
mitting and following such leader- 

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ship, and the ignorance and apathy 
of the other great nations, are re- 
sponsible for the war. 

It is a costly lesson. 

It is costly to the whole world. 

It will teach the whole world the 
laws of cause and effect, and that 
the laws of cause and effect are the 
laws of God, and that God does not 
interfere with the law of gravity, 
of morals, or of sound government, 
either of which may be illustrated 
by the folly of saint or sinner. 

William II, the arch criminal of 
all ages, had been permitted, by 
the moral and ethical decadence of 
the German people, to retain the 
military powers of the army and 
navy of the German people, which 
he on all occasions paraded as "my 
army" and "my navy," until the 
recent defeats (October 8, 1918), 

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when he suddenly speaks to the 
Germans of **your army." 

He had been permitted to retain, 
with his captains and junkers, the 
legislative powers of the people of 
Germany, control over the execu- 
tive powers of the people of Ger- 
many, with the power to declare 
war, and with no man and no set 
of men strong enough to oppose 
him. He had been left by the Ger- 
man people in a position where he 
could be controlled by his own vain 
ambition and by the ambitions of 
his military and naval war lords, 
his junkers and covetous business 
men; where he could guide the poU- 
cies of Germany and of Austria; 
where he could extend autocracy to 
cover the Balkans, Bulgaria, Turkey; 
where he could threaten the peace 
of all mankind by his order of mobil- 

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ization and by his declaration of war 
plunge Europe and the world in the 
bloodiest conflict of all history. 

With unspeakable folly and wick- 
edness, he prepared *'the day." 

"The day" came. 

The night comes also for William 
and his co-conspirators. 

It is the law of cause and effect, 
the law of God. 

The doctrine of William II that 
"Might Makes Right" is the voice 
of atheism; 

It is a denial that there is a living 
God; 

It is a denial that conscience is a 
guide for men; 

It is a denial that God speaks to 
the hearts of men and tells them what 
is right and what is wrong; it is a 
denial of the primary doctrine of all 
of the great religions that men are 

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spiritual, that they are the children 
of God and taught by Him. 

The battle of Armageddon is on 
to determine whether or not God 
reigns on earth, whether or not moral 
and ethical laws shall stand on earth. 
There can be but one answer. It is 
the doom of William II and of the 
Governments which deny the doc- 
trines of justice, of liberty, of hu- 
manity, of righteousness. 

It is the end of Autocracy, the 
triumph of Democracy. 

It means the rebirth of the world. 

It means a thousand years of 
peace. 

"TMien the war drum throbs no longer 
And the battle-flags are furled, 
In the parUament of man, 
The federation of the world." 

It means that the laws of God are 
gloriously working, that men have 

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learned at last by terrible suffering 
the evil consequences of immoral 
conduct, of Prussianism, of Militar- 
ism, of Ruling by Divine Right, of 
the pernicious falsehood that might 
makes right. 

They ought to know now what to 
expect from the Rule of the Few 
without the Consent of the Governed. 
They ought to know now that good 
consequences cannot flow from un- 
just, inhumane military government. 

They ought to know now the vast 
importance of recognizing the prin- 
ciples of Justice, Liberty and Hu- 
manity, and realize the importance 
of providing the mechanism of gov- 
ernment so that the Sovereignty of 
the People shall be made always and 
easily effective. 

The laws of God have been glori- 
ously vindicated and exemplified and 
men have seen a wonderful demon- 

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stration of the evil consequences of 
militarism and dynastic ambition, of 
Ruling by Divine Right without the 
Consent of the Governed, of unlimited 
power in the hands of the Few, and 
that these evil consequences are not 
local, but are world-wide. 

The world at last has been taught 
a terrible lesson by the laws of God. 

Now, perhaps, the world will have 
a world-wide League of Nations 
based on Justice and Liberty, recog- 
nizing at last the brotherhood of Man 
and the Fatherhood of God. 

Where is God.^ 

Everywhere! with His glorious 
and beautiful laws working to ever- 
lasting perfection, teaching at last 
by sorrow the weakest and most 
foolish of His children. 

Where is God? 

Let the "Battle Hymn of the 
Republic" answer — 

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BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC 



"Mine eye hath seen the glory of the coming 
of the Lord: 
He is trampling out the vintage where the 

grapes of wrath are stored; 
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his 
terrible swift sword: 

His truth is marching on. 

"I have seen him in the watch-fires of a 
hundred circling camps: 
They have builded him an altar in the 

evening dews and damps; 
I can read his righteous sentence by the 
dim and flaring lamps. 

His day is marching on. 

"I have read a fiery gospel writ in rows of 
burnished steel: 
*As ye deal with my contemner, so with 

you my grace shall deal'; 
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the 
serpent with his heel. 

Since God is marching on. 

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'He has sounded forth the trumpet that 

shall never call retreat; 
He is sifting out the hearts of men before 

his judgment seat: 
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer him! 

be jubilant, my feet! 

Our God is marching on. 

'In the beauty of the lilies Christ was 

born across the sea, 
With a glory in his bosom that transfigures 

you and me; 
As he died to make men holy, let us die 

to make men free. 

While God is marching on." 

October 10, 1918. 



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